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Reaper is a digital audio workstation: a complete multi-track audio and MIDI environment for recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering.

Is Reaper good for recording live instruments?

Yes, Reaper is a full-featured digital audio workstation (DAW) that lets you record live instruments, but also features multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering. In other words, Reaper is a complete recording studio.

Is Reaper a free DAW?

No, Reaper offers a free trial that lasts for 60 days. This trial version is an unlimited and unrestricted version of Reaper. After the trial period is over, you can purchase Reaper for $60 for home use.

Is Reaper good for beginners?

Reaper is a good option for beginners due to its simple yet customizable layout. There are also many online video tutorials to follow as well.

Another plus is that Reaper is very stable and has low data requirements on all operating systems, Windows, macOS or Linux, so you don’t need to invest a lot of hardware to start your digital studio.

Does Reaper come with plugins?

Reaper comes with a variety of plugins and DAW effects such as compression, EQ, reverb, delay, pitch correction and more. Reaper also supports thousands of third-party plug-in effects and virtual instruments, including VST, VST3, LV2, AU, DX and JS.

Characteristics

Fast, powerful editing

• Drag and drop to import, arrange and render
• Freely mix audio, MIDI, video, still image media on any track
• Easily move, split, paste, resize, trim, loop, time stretch, pitch shift, fade, crossfade, slip, snap to grid, without changing tools
• Intuitive zoom, scroll, scrub, jog, tab to audio transient, MIDI navigation
• Simple and powerful nested folder system allows group editing, routing, bussing, all in one step
• Full automation support for recording, playback and editing for track controls and plug-ins
• Easily manage tempo, time signature and changes in varispeed
• Separate audio or MIDI into freely arrangeable recordings and tracks for easy comping
• Easily copy or move areas to quickly try out alternative arrangements

Plug-in support

• Insert almost any third-party audio or MIDI plugin: VST, VSTi, DX, DXi, AU (OSX only), JS
• ReWire (audio and MIDI) any suitable application for even more flexibility
• Fully automatic plug-in delay compensation (PDC)
• Sidechain any plug-in, even if the plug-in does not support sidechaining
• Use FX in real-time, or render FX output non-destructively
• Real-time network FX processing: use other local machines as an FX farm

What is new

CLAP

• add support for CLAP plugins
• support “cockos.reaper_extension”, which returns a reaper_plugin_info_t structure for REAPER API access (see reaper_plugin.h)

FX

• add project setting to automatically bypass plugins reporting tail length, with user-defined silence threshold
• add per-instance setting to auto-bypass plugin (uses automatic tail detection if plugin doesn’t report tail length)
• add compatibility setting to force auto tail detection so plugins can opt in to project auto bypass

Media explorer

• improve search speed with large databases

ReaScript

• improve get_action_context() (see documentation)
• add GetEnvelopeUIState()
• add GetSetProjectInfo_String MARKER_INDEX_FROM_GUID: support
• add param.X.[learn|lfo|acs|plink|mod] to [Track|Take]FX_[Get|Set]NamedConfigParm functions
• add VIDEO_CODE and vst_chunk/vst_chunk_program/clap_chunk to [Track|Take]FX_[Get|Set]NamedConfigParm functions
• add SetTrackUI[Volume/Pan/Width/Mute/Solo/RecArm/InputMonitor/Polarity] with grouping options and fewer side effects than their CSurf_ equivalents
• add support for a number of keyboard/action related APIs that were previously C-only
• allow access to envelopes for FX parameters that have modulation but no envelope points
• extend SetProjectMarkerByIndex2 to allow deferred reordering of project markers
• update InsertMedia/InsertMediaSection to support modification of RS5k on arbitrary track index, improve docs

Metadata

• fix possible mislabeling of generic metadata in source properties dialog and media explorer
• optionally include metadata in rendering and batch conversion presets
• supports embedding of ID3 tags in .aiff files
• support display of embedded metadata images (cover image, etc.) in MP3, FLAC, WAV, AIFF source properties dialog

Batch converter

• try to preserve original image metadata if possible
• do not override user-added metadata when preserving source metadata
• maintain conversion-specific metadata instead of using project metadata

FX browser

• improve configuration to hide duplicate plugins of different types
• When hiding duplicates, ignore trailing channel counts

JSFX

• add ext_tail_size to support auto-bypass
• update many built-in FX to support auto-bypass

Localization

• support localization of layout category names, link schema labels, etc
• support longer action names in action dialog/edit editor for custom actions
• fix UTF-8 in time signature marker editor combo box on Windows

ReaVerb

• fix deconvolution tail trimming
• support deconvolution of more than 2 channels

Video

• fix resource leak in WMF colorspace conversion
• do action to flush cache/rerender frames asynchronously from decoding
• restore 6.69 and earlier behavior to _0 in gfx_evalrect()

VST

• do not use VST3 bus silenceFlags if buggy compatibility mode is set
• enable/disable VST3 busses on the fly in response to pinmap changes
• move more of the PDC buffer initialization to start playback

WAV

• prioritize displaying text with higher confidence from embedded signal data
• support reading/writing BW64 files (ADM metadata is ignored)

FLAC

• fix occasional error when embedding image metadata in rendered FLAC file

Linux

• improve keyboard handling for plug-ins

Mac us

• fix various incorrect keyboard shortcuts in the menus

Media import

• ignore numbers that look like sample rates (eg “48k”) when trying to interpret tempo from file names

Media elements

• arrange overlapping elements according to the order in which the elements were added to the track

MIDI

• fix recording of multiple recordings via retroactive registration

Preferences

• add rendering option to disable auto-bypass when using offline rendering/use FX/etc

Project bay

• add FX menu item to toggle auto-bypass

ReaPlugs

• supports silence processing optimizations

Reproduce

• don’t automatically set render source to render matrix when opening region manager

RS5k

• fix undo state issues via RS5k manager script

Sending

• optimize processing when transmissions are inactive

Web interface

• fix fancier.html registration of armed track with a single track

API

• process hook functions for actions performed via WM_COMMAND or KBD_OnMainActionEx